XI.—The Charter and Statutes of the College of the Minor Canons in S. Paul's Cathedral, London

W. Sparrow Simpson

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XI.—The Charter and Statutes of the College of the Minor Canons in S. Paul's Cathedral, London

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W. Sparrow Simpson

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The history of an English Cathedral is an integral part of the history of England. Kings have been its nursing fathers and Queens its nursing mothers. Its charters are an important part of the national records. Its foundation, its decay, its restoration, mark epochs in the religious progress of the country. He who would tell the whole story of a cathedral can scarcely pass over without mention any great event of the national history; alike in war and in peace, in time of religious calm and in periods of wild fanatical discord, the grey time-honoured walls of the cathedral have borne their part. It has been the home of religion, the centre of light, the sanctuary where were gathered together the relics of poets, statesmen, warriors, theologians, kings; the last resting-place of the best and greatest men that have adorned the nation's annals.

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Information: Archaeologia , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , 1871 , pp. 165 - 200

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900004045 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1871

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^{page 165 note a} History of S. Paul's Cathedral, Dugdale, edited by Sir H. Ellis.

^{page 165 note b} The Domesday of S. Paul's, Camden Soc. 1858Google Scholar. The death of this excellent and learned man has occurred while these pages are passing through the press.

^{page 165 note c} Annals of S. Paul's Cathedral, second edit. 1869.

^{page 166 note a} Milman, Annals, pp. 130, 134.

^{page 166 note b} Milman, Annals, p. 143.

^{page 166 note c} Monasticon, vi. 1457–458.

^{page 166 note d} Founded by King Richard II. in honour of Queen Anne his wife, as Stowe, p. 264; but Tanner says quære [Dug. Monast.].

^{page 166 note e} Pat. 1 Hen. IV. p. 4, m. 14.

^{page 166 note f} Pat. 23 Hen. VI. p. 2, m. 28 ; Pat. 24 Hen. VI. p. 1, m. 27 ; see also Newcourt, Repert. Eccles. i. 359, &c.

^{page 166 note g} Newcourt, Repert. Eccles. i. 232.

^{page 166 note h} Edit. Sir H. Ellis. 1818, pp. 17, 18.

^{page 166 note i} Harleian MSS. No. 980, fo. 179a.

^{page 167 note a} Charter, infra. Appendix I.

^{page 167 note b} Calaber, a kind of fur. See Brit. Bibl. ii. 401 ; Strutt, ii. 102 ; Cov. Myst. p. 242 ; Halliwell, Diet.

^{page 167 note c} Wilkins, Concilia, fo. 1737, Lond. iii. 134, 135. [The confirmation is wrongly entered in the Index, thus, “Minores Canonici in Eccles. S. P. L. instituuntur.”]

^{page 168 note a} Wilkins, Concilia, fo. Lond. 1737, iii. 134, 135.

^{page 168 note b} Dugdale's S. Paul's, edit. 1818, p. 345.

^{page 168 note c} Ralph de Baldock elected dean 18 Oct. 1294 ; preferred to bishopric of London, 1304, Dugdale pud Godwin.

^{page 168 note d} Newcourt, Repertorium, p. 233.

^{page 168 note e} Amictus. Primus ex sex indumentis Episcopo et Presbyteris communibus. Sunt autem illa: Amictus, Alba, Cingulum, Stola, Manipulus, Planeta. Grisium vel Griseum ; Pellis animalis cujusdam quod vulgo Vair Galli appellant. Ducange. An almuce of the fur called grey was worn by canons. Why amictus is here used for almutium is uncertain.

^{page 168 note f} William Warham, installed Bishop 5 Oct. 1502; sic Dugdale, p. 220; yet, loco citato, p. 345, he subjoins to Warham's name the date MCCCC^o.

^{page 169 note a} Dugdale, S. Paul's, p. 345.

^{page 169 note b} Confirmatio a Papa Urbano VI.

^{page 169 note c} Milman, Annals, p. 143, and Dugdale, pp. 12, 13.

^{page 169 note d} Milman, Annals, p. 141.

^{page 169 note e} Dugdale, pp. 345–6.

^{page 169 note f} Appendix I.

^{page 169 note g} Godwin, De Præsulibus.

^{page 170 note a} Godwin, De Præsulibus.

^{page 170 note b} Rot. Pat. 18 Ric. II. pars la, m. 18.

^{page 170 note c} Newcourt, Repertorium, i. 318.

^{page 171 note a} Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens.

^{page 171 note b} Stanley's Westminster Abbey, p. 150, edit. 3.

^{page 171 note c} Ibid. p. 151. As to the probable origin of the ostrich-feather badge, which Miss Strickland is certainly mistaken in referring to Anne of Bohemia, see Sir N. H. Nicolas' paper, “On the Badges and Mottoes of the Princes of Wales,” Archæologia, xxxi. 350 ; and see ibid, xxxii. 69 and 332. The ostrich badge of the Queen will be found noticed by Mr. J. G. Nichols, Archæologia, xxix. 51.

^{page 171 note d} Dean Milman, Annals of S. Paul's, p. 81.

^{page 171 note e} Ibid, quoting Hardynge, Chronicle, chap. cc. stanza 1.

^{page 171 note f} Richard II. is “the first English king whose autograph we possess.” See Fue Similes of National MSS. part i. 1865.

^{page 171 note g} Appendix to Dugdale, art. xxxv. MS. Baker. Harleian, Brit. Mus. 7043, to. 201.

^{page 172 note a} Dugdale, Appendix, art. xxxvi. MS. Baker, Harl. Brit. Mus. 7043, fo. 263.

^{page 172 note b} Dugdale, p. 92.

^{page 172 note c} Dugdale, p. 17; Pat. 40 Edw. III. p. 2, m. 3.

^{page 172 note d} Appendix No. II. infra.

^{page 173 note a} A MS. upon paper, in small quarto (consisting of twenty leaves, 11 inches high, inches wide) amongst the Archives of the Minor Canons.

^{page 173 note b} Statutes, § I.

^{page 174 note a} See also Confirmatio a Papa Urbano VI. ut supra.

^{page 174 note b} Statutes, § II.

^{page 174 note c} Ibid. §§ III. IV.

^{page 174 note d} Ibid. § V.

^{page 174 note e} Statutes, § VI.

^{page 174 note f} Ibid. § VII.

^{page 174 note g} Ibid. § VIII.

^{page 175 note a} Statutes, § IX.

^{page 174 note b} Ibid. § X.

^{page 175 note c} Ibid. § XI.

^{page 175 note d} Ibid. § XII.

^{page 175 note e} Ibid. § XIII.

^{page 175 note f} Ibid. § XIV.

^{page 176 note a} Statutes, § XV.

^{page 176 note b} Ibid. § XVI.

^{page 176 note c} Ibid. § XVII.

^{page 176 note d} Ibid. § XVIII.

^{page 176 note e} Ibid. § XIX.

^{page 176 note f} Ibid. § XX.

^{page 176 note g} Ibid. § XXI.

^{page 177 note a} Statutes, § XXII.

^{page 177 note b} “Per viam Sp. Sancti.” The three modes of canonical election as prescribed in the 24th Canon of the fourth Lateran Council. See Corpus Juris Canonici: Extra. De Electione, c. Quia propter. (Decretal. Greg. ix. lib. 1, cap. xlii.)

^{page 177 note c} Statutes, § XXIII.

^{page 177 note d} Dngdale, Hist, of S. Paul's, p. 348.

^{page 177 note e} Statutes, § XXIV.

^{page 177 note f} Ibid. § XXV.

^{page 177 note g} Ibid. § XXVI.

^{page 177 note h} Ibid. § XXVII.

^{page 177 note i} Ibid. § XXVIII.

^{page 177 note k} Ibid. § XXIX.

^{page 178 note a} Statutes, § XXX.

^{page 178 note b} Ibid. § XXXI.

^{page 178 note c} Ibid § XXXII.

^{page 178 note d} Ibid. § XXXIII.

^{page 178 note e} Ibid § XXXIV.

^{page 178 note f} Ibid. § XXXV.

^{page 178 note g} Ibid. § XXXVI.

^{page 178 note h} Ibid, § XXXVII.

^{page 178 note i} A.D. 1519.

^{page 179 note a} Statutes, § XXXVIII.

^{page 179 note b} A.D. 1520.

^{page 179 note c} A.D. 1396. See Statutes, § I.

^{page 179 note d} Dugdale, p. 353, sic.

^{page 179 note e} i. e. Miniver.

^{page 179 note f} Confirmatio a Papa Urbano VI. ut supra.

^{page 179 note g} Dugdale, Hist, of S. Paul's Cathedral, p. 353. Ex cod. MSS. penès Will. Pierpout, Arm.

^{page 180 note a} Appendix III.

^{page 180 note b} Appendix IV.

^{page 180 note c} See Return of Chantries, 1 Edw. VI. Dugdale, p. 390.

^{page 180 note d} See also Return of Chantries, 1 Edw. VI. Dugdale, p. 390.

^{page 181 note a} O Sapientia. See Calendar of Book of Common Prayer, December 16: the Anthem at the Magnificat on the seven days before Christmas begins with the interjection O, whence the Anthems were called in old French “les Oleries de devant Noël.”

^{page 181 note b} Wassail. The term in later times was applied to any festivity. The liquor termed wassail in the provinces is made of apples, sugar, and ale. Halliwell's Dictionary.

^{page 181 note c} January 25.

^{page 181 note d} June 30.

^{page 181 note e} Flaun. A custard, generally made in raised paste. A kind of pancake was also called by this name. Halliwell, Dictionary.

^{page 181 note f} Appendix No. C. pp. 380–387.

^{page 182 note a} Wilkins's Concilia, iii. 134, 135.

^{page 187 note a} There is an erasure here extending over a page and a quarter ; the English version of the Statutes, however, does not indicate that any words have been omitted. The scribe, though a skilful writer, seems more than once to have repeated a sentence, thus necessitating an erasure.

^{page 189 note a} Here an erasure extending over seventeen lines; but the English translation presents no lacuna. It will be observed that in the index this statute is cited as De tonsura et gestu, &c, though, in its present form, it contains no reference to the tonsure.

^{page 197 note a} “Any siluer cuppe, maser, spone, napkins, towelles, nor any other of the mouables.”—(English version of the Statutes.)

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